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My 100meg fibre line has finally been activated and man its flying!

I changed one of the lan ports on my asus dsl 68U to a wan port and bobs my uncle.

I want to get two Unify AP AC lites to put at either end of my house. My house is pretty much T shaped with the router at bottom of the T, can I connect a ubiquiti switch (no clue which type or what would be suitable) from the router to go into the ceiling? Then from there connect two AP's (roughly 15-20 meter) equidistant apart.

Is this feasable?
Which switch would be appropraite?
What cabling should I find 5e or 6?

Thanks for the help!
 
If you want to manage the switch via the unifi ecosystem then get yourself a nice 8 port unifi poe switch. This will power your APs for you too.
Otherwise, you can use poe injectors (the aps sell with them) and any old switch. Make sure it's a gigabit switch though.
Cat5e will suffice
 
You can run the Unifi controller software on a Raspberry Pi. At the very least this allows one SSID to be configured to use on all the APs, allowing seamless roaming as you move around the house. They can also then be managed from an app on your phone.

I have two AC Lite APs connected to a DLink switch and powered with the included POE injectors. They work very well and are very stable.
 
Don't need the switch at all if you have enough ports open on the Router.

Just use the packages PoE injectors and off you go.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Spending R2000 just to free up some plugs in a home installation is a bit silly.

Especially when using the router directly would cost nothing.
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What kind of tech geek are you anyway?
 
Well, shiit :)
/looks at usg, cloud key, ap lite and 2 ap meshes....

/looks at gloves with holes in.

Dammit.
 
Sinbad said:
Well, shiit :)
/looks at usg, cloud key, ap lite and 2 ap meshes....

/looks at gloves with holes in.

Dammit.
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I bet there is a 64 core Xeon-based server in the garage too.

Only AP Lite? Where is the over engineering commitment?
 
2 meshes? ;)
Or the microserver running freenas with a rancher Vm hosting docker containers for homeassistant, mosquitto, squid and appdaemon?
 
SauRoNZA said:
Spending R2000 just to free up some plugs in a home installation is a bit silly.

Especially when using the router directly would cost nothing.
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I actually purchased it for 2 reasons:

1: I have an in wall AC unit in my bedroom which requires PoE af to enable one to use the PoE ethernet port on it.
2: To learn how the device works for future deployments at clients

And then I had the excuse that I needed to have this 3D printed rack made :D

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marlin178 said:
I actually purchased it for 2 reasons:

1: I have an in wall AC unit in my bedroom which requires PoE af to enable one to use the PoE ethernet port on it.
2: To learn how the device works for future deployments at clients

And then I had the excuse that I needed to have this 3D printed rack made :D

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Yeah I've also had a lot of expensive work testing kit in my house before.

I just don't like to create the perception with people that you NEED such things to make something else work.

Just because I've had a full satellite install at my house worth thousands of dollars and an Astaro UTM for testing and pretending to be a ship doesn't mean every consumer needs to do the same.
 
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SauRoNZA said:
Yeah I've also had a lot of expensive work testing kit in my house before.

I just don't like to create the perception with people that you NEED such things to make something else work.
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I always offer my clients the non PoE Netgear switch first but also offer the UniFi as an option if they want to spend the $$...
 
SauRoNZA said:
Yeah I've also had a lot of expensive work testing kit in my house before.

I just don't like to create the perception with people that you NEED such things to make something else work.

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I did point out two options, one nicely integrated and one cheap ;)
 
Ok so as per SauRoNZA, it’s not necessary for the switch just put two cables into open lab ports on router up into ceiling and put them equidistant of each other.

This will give me great WiFi around the house which is all I really need?

If I need to expand later on I can with more complicated setup.
 
JasonK said:
Ok so as per SauRoNZA, it’s not necessary for the switch just put two cables into open lab ports on router up into ceiling and put them equidistant of each other.
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Affirmative.

Cat5e cables for AC Lite's are fine, but use quality solid core copper cables, not CCA.
 
JasonK said:
Ok so as per SauRoNZA, it’s not necessary for the switch just put two cables into open lab ports on router up into ceiling and put them equidistant of each other.

This will give me great WiFi around the house which is all I really need?

If I need to expand later on I can with more complicated setup.
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If you need help with device setup, give us a shout :)
 
JasonK said:
THANKS! Where would be a a good place to buy cabling?
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Not sure where you're based and if you're planning on buying bulk cable and terminating the ends yourself or buying premade up cables but try one of these guys:

Scoop.co.za
DBG.co.za
geewiz.co.za
 
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